Teacher Development for Bilingual Education in Colombia: Towards Teacher Empowerment

This article examines aspects of teacher education in Colombia with regard to demands posed by bilingual education and foreign language programmes. There is an initial overview of developments in the Americas, followed by a discussion of research conducted in Colombia in relation to the teaching of...

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Main Author: Anne-Marie Truscott de Mejía (Author)
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Published: Universidad de Navarra, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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